Local Wausau News

RHINELANDER (WAOW) - A community group hosted a candlelight vigil in light of the double homicide in Oneida County.

 A sea of green filled the Rothschild Pavilion Thursday.

 Police say the stabbing is raising new questions in Wausau.

Wisconsin Rapids Assumption totaled 22 steals and scored 34 points off turnovers, en route to a 57-43 win over South Shore in Thursday's WIAA Girls Basketball Division 5 state semifinal.

A judge in Delaware has approved Trump Entertainment Resorts' reorganization plan, which gives billionaire investor Carl Icahn control of the reorganized company and its Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

This summer, a recent UW-Madison graduate from Wisconsin Rapids is traveling the country. He's doing it on his bike.

A big summer tournament is heading to central Wisconsin. The World Water Ski Championships will be at Lake Wazeecha in Wisconsin Rapids next year.

The Walt Disney Co. has announced plans to make a sequel to the animated mega-hit "Frozen."

The Rhinelander community is donating money and toys to the sisters whose parents were killed last weekend.

Wisconsin's attorney general says a report on the shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old man by a Madison police officer should be sent to a prosecutor in about two weeks.

A federal jury has ordered the NFL to pay nearly $76,000 to fans affected by the 2011 Super Bowl seating mess in Texas.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he'd like to see a smaller cut to the University of Wisconsin System's budget and less autonomy for the system.

A dog dressed like a child is turning heads in southwest China. The one-year-old male poodle walks on his two hind legs.

The WIAA Girls Basketball Tournament starts Thursday.

A relative says one of the military members killed in a helicopter crash during a training exercise along the Florida Panhandle has roots in Wisconsin.

A bus carrying members of a college bowling team has crashed on a southern Indiana highway en route to a tournament in Tennessee.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - A judge Thursday refused to order that the prosecution of a 15-year-old boy charged with fatal stabbing another teenager in Wausau be moved to juvenile court.

Wisconsin revenue officials say if you are one of the taxpayers whose state return is targeted for possible identity theft, it could take up to 12 weeks if you're getting a refund.

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) -- A Michigan couple has completed a quest to visit all 3,108 counties in the lower 48 states -- closing out the task with their trip to Nantucket.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- A spokesman for the St. Louis County police department says two officers have been shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department.